All about the genuine Sabah Claim Society

We are Philippine patriots who have grouped together from around the world and who created the Sabah Claim Society group originally on Facebook on 15 July 2011 and counted close to 6,000 members.

But on 5 October 2011 our group on Facebook was traitorously hijacked by two people we had invited to join us as group admins but who, we learned later on, had been hired to sabotage our patriotic group by a group of sinister individuals sporting fake European sounding nobility titles and other spurious Tausug/Sulu titles ['bestowed' and indiscriminately distributed on Facebook] and organized by a combined team of charlatans namely a datu (sporting a fake sultan title) and the latter's handler who is conveniently sporting an absolutely fake 'princely' title as well.

Please be warned that the said group of individuals, we believe, are in fact con artists out to "claim" Sabah for "get rich quick" reasons and are not genuine Philippine patriots. Their motive, we have discovered, is to be able to convince Malaysians that they are genuine Sulu royalty and pro-Philippine Sabah claim supporters in order to extract from Malaysia (which has control of Sabah today) a premium for letting go of the Sabah claim.

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Kiram, who fought to reclaim Sabah from Malaysia, died
at 4:42 a.m. He was 75.

He was supposed to undergo dialysis but his blood pressure
dropped drastically prompting his family to rush the sultan to the PHC where he
died due to multiple organ failure, according to Princess Jacel.

"Iniwanan n'ya tayo [He left us] with something to
move on. We have to continue fighting for the Filipino people," his
daughter said.

Princess Jacel said that before he died, her father said
that, "You have to be strong dahil meron pa tayong misyon sa buhay.
Kailangang maibalik kung ano ang dapat na maibalik sa atin You have to be
strong because we still have a mission in life. What needs to be returned
should be returned to us] ."

She said Kiram also always told his family that,
"Everything happens because the Almighty allowed it to happen."

Kiram's remains were brought to his residence at MaharlikaVillage
in TaguigCity.

Princess Jacel said their family would like to bury the
sultan in Maimbung, Sulu within 24 hours.

In February this year, Kiram sent about 400 of his
followers to Tanduao village in Sabah's remote coastal town of Lahad Datu to reclaim the territory.

Kiram said he was prompted to send his people to Sabah after the Philippine government left them out of
the framework agreement signed in October, which only catered to the interest
of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

It was Malaysia,
which took over Sabah in 1963, that brokered
the peace talks between the Philippine government and the MILF.

While the MILF respects the Kiram family's claim to Sabah and won't stand in the way of that claim, it
"will not revive the claim," according to Khaled Musa, deputy
chairperson of the MILF's committee on information.

Kiram, who ran but lost in the 2007 senatorial elections,
was the acknowledged leader of the Sultanate of Sulu and North
Borneo. The sultanate based in Southern Philippines once
controlled North Borneo, which is now known as Sabah.

The sultanate acquired Sabah
as a prize for helping the Sultan of Brunei against his enemies.

According to the sultante, it did not relinquish its
sovereignty over Sabah and only leased the
territory to the Briitish North Borneo Company starting in 1878.

Pajak, the keyword in the 1878 pact

The keyword in the 1878 agreement between the Kiram family
and Gustavo von de Overbeck of the Briitish North Borneo Company
was pajak. The Kirams maintain that pajak means lease. But
Malaysian authorities define pajak as sale.

The lease continued until the independence and formation of
the Malaysian federation in 1963, which included Sabah.

Because of Sabah's inclusion, the Philippine government
during the presidency of Diosdado Macapagal, broke diplomatic relations with Malaysia.

It was during Macapagal's term when then reigning Sultan of
Sulu, Muhammad Esmail E. Kiram I, ceded to the Philippine government the full
sovereignty, title, and dominion of Sabah to the Republic of the Philippines.
This gave the Philippine government the full authority to pursue its claim to Sabah in international courts.

But starting in 1989, succeeding administrations put the
Sabah claim on the back burner and instead decided to pursue economic and
security relations with Malaysia.

P70,000 for 7 million hectares

Up to now, the heirs of the sultanate receive rental money
for Sabah from the Malaysian government.

Sabah’s total land area is 7.36 million hectares or almost
one-fourth of the Philippines,
which is 30 million hectares.

Annually, the Malaysian government pays the heirs of the
Sultanate of Sulu, 5,300 Malaysian ringgit currently equivalent to P70,000.
If pajak is defined as rent, it means that Malaysia’s
annual rent of Sabah is only .009 centavos per
hectare.

According to Kiram, the rent they receive only proves that
the sultante owns Sabah.

"Why should we leave our own home? In fact, they are
paying rent (to us)," Kiram earlier told reporters in Manila.

"Our followers will stay in Lahad Datu. Nobody will be
sent to the Philippines.
Sabah is our home," he added.

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WHAT IS THE SABAH CLAIM SOCIETY?

The SABAH CLAIM SOCIETY blog serves as a repository of articles, documents, researches, and other publised material to help us all understand what the Philippine Sabah claim is all about and where it is at today. Our aim is to provide a 'pedagogical' platform, a learning tool that everyone is invited to use to discuss and learn about the standing Philippine Sabah claim.

For information, the SABAH CLAIM SOCIETY is NOT under the aegis of any Sultanate of Sulu group nor of any Facebook group linked to/headed by indviduals purporting to be sultan of Sulu, grand prince marshal, duke/duchess, count, viscount, marquis, baron, lord, lady, etc., etc. These European sounding nobility titles do not exist in the genuine Tausug or Sulu Sultanate culture and are therefore fake, a pure invention.

We are not a part of any government or non-governmental institution or agency whatsoever. We are just a group of genuine individual patriots who have come together from different parts of the globe to enforce and support the tenet that sovereignty rights of the Republic of the Philippines over Sabah must and should remain supreme.

WE GO BY THE DICTUM OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS SENATOR JOVITO SALONGA, FATHER OF THE PHILIPPINE SABAH CLAIM

"If, despite the assumed knowledge of the validity and justice of the Philippine claim, we fold our arms in mortal fear, we should lose not merely the respect of all law-abiding nations (the United Kingdom and the Asian countries in particular), but also a considerable measure of self-respect — which, to my mind, is more important — and, by our own inaction and timidity, lose our faith in the ultimate validity of that which is right and just. If, on the other hand, we come to the conclusion that the Philippine claim is without basis, then we should say so and let the British Government know our stand. Such candor and probity will undoubtedly inspire the respect of the entire free world."